Chad & Jeremy

I found my love in the gas light glow
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
Kissed my girl by the factory wall
Dirty old town
Dirty old town

Clouds are drifting across the moon
Cats are prowling along their beat
Spring's a girl in the street at night
Dirty old town
Dirty old town

I heard a siren from the docks
Saw a train set the night on fire
Smelled the Spring on the smokey wind
Dirty old town
Dirty old town

I'm gonna take me a good sharp axe
Shining steel tempered in the fire
We'll chop you down like an old dead tree
Dirty old town
Dirty old town

On a wagon bound for market,
There's a calf with a mournful eye
High above him There's a swallow,
Winging swifty through the sky
How the winds are laughing
They laugh with all their might
Laugh and laugh the whole day through
And half the summer's night
Donna Donna Donna Donna,
Donna Donna Donna Don.
Donna Donna Donna Donna,
Donna Donna Donna Don.

Stop complaining said the farmer,
Who told you a calf to be,
Why don't you have wings to fly with,
Like the swallow so pround and free?
How the winds are laughing
They laugh with all their might
Laugh and laugh the whole day through
And half the summer's night
Donna Donna Donna Donna,
Donna Donna Donna Don.
Donna Donna Donna Donna,
Donna Donna Donna Don.

Calves are easily bound and slaughtered,
Never knowing the reason why
But whoever treasures freedom,
Like the swallow has learned to fly
How the wind are laughing
They laugh with all their might
Laugh and laugh the whole day through
And half the summer's night
Donna Donna Donna Donna,
Donna Donna Donna Don.
Donna Donna Donna Donna,
Donna Donna Donna Don.

Willow weep for me
Willow weep for me
Bend your branches green
Along the stream that runs to sea

Listen to my plea
Listen willow and weep for me

Gone my lover's dream
Lovely summer's dream
Gone and left me here
To weep my tears into the stream

Sad as I can be
Hear me willow and weep for me

Whisper to the wind
And say that love has sinned
Leave my heart a-breaking
And making a moan
Murmur to the night
To hide the starry light
So none will find me sighing
And crying all alone

Weepin' willow tree
Weep in sympathy
Bend your branches down
Along the ground and cover me

When the shadows fall
Bend oh willow and weep for me

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Written By ANN RONELL
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If I loved you, time and again I would try to say
All I'd want you to know
If I loved you, words wouldn't come in an easy way
'Round in circles I'd go
Longin' to tell you, but afraid and shy
I'd let my golden chances pass me by

Soon you'd leave me
Off you would go in the mist of day
Never, never to know
How I'd love you
If I loved you

Late yesterday night
I saw a light shine from a window
And as I looked again
Your face came into sight
I couldn't walk on
Until you'd gone from your window
I had to make you mine
I knew you were the one
Oh I would be glad
Just to have a love like that
Oh I would be true
And I'd spend my life with you
So meet me tonight
Just where the light shines from a window
And as I take your hand
Say that you'll be mine tonight

Oh I would be glad
Just to have a love like that
Oh I would be true
And I'd spend my life with you
So meet me tonight
Just where the light shines from a window
And as I take your hand
Say that you'll be mine tonight
Be mine tonight

I loved you all the summer through
I thought I'd found my dream in you
For me you were the one
But that was yesterday and yesterday's gone

We walked together hand in hand
'cross miles and miles of golden sand
But now it's over and done
'cause that was yesterday and yesterday's gone

We had such happiness together
I can't believe it's gone forever

Wait 'til summer comes again
I hope that you'll remember when
Our love had just begun
I loved you yesterday and yesterday's gone

We had such happiness together
I can't believe it's gone forever

Wait 'til summer comes again
I hope that you'll remember when
Our love had just begun
I loved you yesterday and yesterday's gone
Yesterday's gone
Yesterday's gone
Yesterday's gone

When I was seventeen,
it was a very good year.
It was a very good year
for small town girls and soft summer nights.
We'd hide from the light
on the village green when I was seventeen.

When I was twenty-one,
it was a very good year.
It was a very good year for city
girls who lived up the stairs
With perfume hair that came undone
when I was twenty-one.

When I was thirty-five,
it was a very good year.
It was a very good year for blue-blooded
girls of independent means.
We'd ride in limousines. Their chauffeurs
would drive when I was thirty-five.

But now the days are short, I'm in the
autumn of the year
and now I think of my life as vintage
wine from fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs. It poured
sweet and clear. It was a very good year